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Bob Ellis’ bifurcated week in Canberra
Bob Ellis was at Federal Parliament this week, speaking to politicians, including Craig Thomson, and sensing the mood around Parliament House. Bob Ellis with Foreign Minister Bob Carr in the halls of...
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News Limited’s hysterical campaign confirms need for media regulation
News Limited is the main perpetrator of media abuses in Australia, writes Alan Austin, and hence the strongest proof the current self-regulation system is useless. Twitter response to Daily...
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Communication breakdown
Gee considers several recent major communication breakdowns in Australian politics. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Australia License
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Murdoch’s marks all over Labor leadership spill
Managing editor David Donovan says this afternoon’s ALP leadership spill has Rupert Murdoch’s grubby hands all over it, and the stakes could not be higher. Simon Crean (right) looks for a suitable...
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LIVE: Thursday in Canberra — Bob Ellis’ spill diary
Our man in Canberra, Bob Ellis, fills us in on up-to-the minute news from in and around Parliament on this historic day. Bob Ellis with Bob Carr in the halls of power. 9.55 am In a dream I am...
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Dead woman walking?
Tess Lawrence believes Julia Gillard’s victory yesterday in the spill that wasn’t was not even pyrrhic and her use-by-date has simply been compounded. by contributing editor-at-large Tess Lawrence...
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Christmas 2013 — post-Apocalypse
by Ross Jones THE LARGE ROOM was dimly illuminated by only two of its fifty or so overhead lights. One shone weakly over the end of a long towel-topped bar, just enough so you could make out the...
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Thrills and spills but the election race isn’t over
Yesterday’s spills was forced on caucus by nervous nellies and the Murdoch press, says Rodney E. Lever, but it isn’t all over for Julia Gillard yet. FOR JULIA GILLARD, this was do or die week. Some...
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Interview with Mr Press Pack
We now cross to Canberra, where IA reporter Camo presents an exclusive interview with political correspondent Mr Press Pack in the wake of yesterday’s Labor leadership spill. CAMO – Thanks for your...
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The game that got away
The media really thought they had their man … er … woman on Thursday, says David Horton, but they’ll just have to come back and try better next week. ON THURSDAY in Australia, we saw the media in full...
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Australia’s new dawn?
This week’s events, messy as they were, have opened the door for Julia Gillard to convert the ALP into a new and modernised political party, says Rodney E. Lever. WHATEVER HAPPENED in the halls of...
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Newspaper venom and the untold stories
The past fortnight has seen a plethora of positive initiatives come out of Canberra, but you would never know that from following Australia’s newspapers, writes Rodney E. Lever. THIS IS a story you...
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Ruddpocalypse
Cartoonist Matt Bissett-Johnson comments on the political carnage in Canberra last week. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Australia License
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Mr Sheen shines Australian politics to a sparkling gleam
Mr Sheen cleans up Australian politics with Gee, from Honest John to Kevin Rudd, and Phony Tone the Manly dud, he waxes, cleans and polishes it with glee. This work is licensed under a Creative...
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The traditional media and Gillard
The mainstream political commentariat now performs as a group of extra-parliamentary politicians and is becoming a danger to the nation, writes Dr Klaas Woldring. “Labor in turmoil”? Even the ABC can...
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Latham’s neo-liberal Labor and the Abbott right rat-snake
Mark Latham may have succumbed to the creed of neo-liberalism, but he has summed up the Abbott right to perfection in his new Quarterly Essay, says Graham Jackson. As an old card-carrying trade...
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The problem with anonymous sources
Journalists with their unnamed sources are far from a cornerstone of democracy, says David Horton — and, in fact, may be something of a threat. JOURNALISTS WITH secret sources a cornerstone of our...
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Ashbygate loose ends
The LNP want to form Government as soon as possible, but perhaps they should answer some questions about the Ashbygate conspiracy first, says Vince O’Grady. THE LOOSE ENDS of the Ashbygate conspiracy...
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Murdoch in Darwin and his plans for Australia
Rodney E. Lever considers Rupert Murdoch’s visit to Darwin, as well as the suspicious timing of his disgraced apparatchik Rebekah Brooks’ visit to Australia. EVIDENCE IS steadily mounting, day by day,...
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A fair go for Prime Minister Julia Gillard
Tony Abbott’s greatest successes have been making Prime Minister Julia Gillard seem illegitimate and obscuring her government’s achievements. The media and public have been too hard on her. Clint...
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